Overshoe attachment.



J. GROSS.

OVERSHOE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN,29,1914.

1,119,277. Patented Dec. 1,1914.

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JACOB GROSS, OF YORK, N. Y.

OVERSHOE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

Application filed January 29, 1914. Serial No. 815,147.

7 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB GROSS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Qvershoe Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

The object I have in view is to produce a device to be used in connection with overshoes, whereby wear of the latter at the heel portion will be avoided. \Yhen an ordinary rubber overshoe is applied to a shoe in which the heel has been irregularly worn, a cavity or chamber is produced between the overshoe and the bottom of the heel. Every time the person wearing the overshoes takes a step, the back part of the heel of the overshoe is folded on itself; consequently, in a very short time this part of the overshoe will wear. I have observed that overshoes will be completel worn through at the back of the heel be ore any other part of the overshoe shows evidenceof any considerable wear. Therefore, through lack of suitable support of the heel of the overshoe, the wall thereof at the back and sides of the heel is bent or folded inward and outward at every step that the wearer takes, soon destroying that part of the overshoe. I

In the accompanying drawings, two embodiments of my invention are illustrated.

Figure 1 represents an overshoe partly in section, showing one embodiment of my invention in place. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a similar view, of a modified form of attachment, adapted to be permanently attached to the overshoe; and Fig. 4-is a sectional view of a portion of an overshoe showing such attachment in place.

Referring to the drawings, Fig. 1 represents the attachment when placed w thin the overshoe 2. The attachment comprises a bottom 3, of substantially the same shape as the original size of the heel of the shoe or boot to which the overshoe is to be applied.

In connection with the bottom 3, are the side members 4. These sides are curved to the shape of the heel andcounter 5 of the shoe. The whole attachment is made of material hich is substantially stifi', rigid and unyielding. Sheet metal, fiber or any other suitable material may be employed. In order to hold the device in position upon the heel, it is provided, as shown in 1 and :2, with a front 6, adapted to engage with the front of the heel.

According to the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1 and "2, the attachment is adapted to be applied to the heel of the shoe or boot and to be separate from the overshoe. According to the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4, the attachment isadapted to be permanently attached to the overshoe, by being inserted within the lining 7, as shown in Fig. 4. Ineither event, it is inside of the rubber portion of the overshoe, so that a rigid backing is provided for the heel portion of the overshoe.

In Figs. 1 and 4, the shape of the heel is shown in dashed lines 8, this being taken as an average shape of the heel after considerable wear. There is thereby produced a chamber or cavity 9, between the bottom of the heel and the heel of the overshoe. \Vithout my device, there being no support for the bottom and back of the heel portion of the overshoe, it will bend inward and outward at about the point 10, while the user is walking, and will soon become ruptured and disintegrated t this point. According to my invention, e lower part of the heel of the overshoe is supported by the attachment, irrespective of the condition of the heel-of the shoe. Consequently, there can be no such movement of the back of the overshoe, when used with a shoe with an irregularly worn heel, as before described.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes, I have described the principle of my invention, together with the apparatus which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof; but I desire to have it understood that the apparatus shown is merely illustrative and that the invention may be carried out in other ways.

Havingnow described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An attachment for overshoes which comprises a casing made of material of a substantial, stiff, rigid and unyielding nature, with a bottom of substantially the same size and shape of an unworn heel and with sides extending upward as far as the counter of the inner shoe, thus forming a backing for the heel part of the overshoe, irrespective of the regularity of the shoe heel.

2. An attachment for overshoes which comprises a casing made of material of a substantial, stiff, rigid and unyielding nature, with a bottom of substantially the same size and shape of an unworn heel, with sides extending upward as far as the counter of the inner shoe, and with a front adapted to engage with the front of the heel, the sides, bottom and front forming a backing for the-heel part of the overshoe irrespective of the regularity of the shoe heel.

3. An attachment for overshoes which comprises a removable casing made of material of a substantial, stiff, rigid and unyielding nature, with a bottom of substantially the same size and shape of an unworn heel and with sides extending upward as far as the counter of the inner shoe, thus forming a backing for the heel part of the 'overshoe, irrespective of the regularity of the shoe heel.

4. An attachment for overshoes which 20 worn heel, with sides extending upward as 25 far as the counter of the inner shoe, and

with a front adapted to engage with the 7 front of the heel, the sides, bottom and front forming a backing for the heel part of the overshoe irrespective of the regularity of 30 the shoe heel.

This specification signed and witnessed this twenty-eighth day of January, 1914.

JACOB GROSS.

Witnesses:

ANNA E. RENTON, J. F. COLEMAN. 

